Amen! Actually, if the cable didn't just "work" when I plugged it into the wall, I wouldn't bother with cable myself. I'm getting a converter with a coupon. I don't care about all the latest technology. My TV is fine and it's analogue.
Oh and I don't do Comcast Cable Broadband at $50 a month. I do ATT DSL at $20 per month, and it's as fast as the stupid cable is.
My issue with Comcast, they want you to bundle everything, telephone, internet & tv. The issue, while I might save some money bundling, my telephone and power have never been out for weeks on end, even turned off on me when I pay my bills as a loyal customer. I live where hurricanes are a fact of life, the last one that went thru here, telephone never went out, power was down for 5 days, cable was out for 2 weeks. Bundle your services with Comcast and you'll be without a phone, internetless and tv-less for weeks, maybe even months. Comcast installed my new next door neighbors cable, that very same day my cable went out. As I traced my cable to the terminal box, I found that I had been completely disconnected and that there were no more recepticles to hook the cable to. And then I saw the tag on a cable marked as my new next door neighbor's apartment #. Well, I was astonished that Comcast claimed to have sent someone out to attempt to fix my outage. Turns out they lied to me for 5 days. Just before 2007 Thanksgiving, they indicated it would take another 11 days to have my service restored. That's 16 days without. Had I bundled (and Comcast solicited me days before disconnecting me), would any of this have happened ? Would it still have happened and then I'd be out everything for 16 days ? Well, if that is their tactic (and it pissed me off that I had to see my new neighbor watching my cable connection when I came home every night to this very day), they can keep their services and raise prices to those who have to be their victims. Not me. Around 2007 Christmas, they showed up claiming they could reconnect me that same day. I told them not to bother, that I had disconnected them from the wall and I didn't want them anywhere near the wall to reconnect it. They went across the courtyard to try to solicit another neighbor, the guy rejected them and I started laughing at them and said to them, "see, there's someone else that doesn't want you in their home."
My ordeal if it didn't happen to me in reality, I'd swear was something you'd see in "The Cable Guy" or it's sequel.